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🔮 8th of October: Did you ever experience something supernatural?

Nope. I've never experienced ghosts, fae, rooms that just chill you to the bone as soon as you walk in. Nothing.

To be honest, I'm still grasping how incredible nature is - the planets, gravity, birds that fly, soil that nourishes plants. I know that there are experts in all these fields, but the ultimate why of 'why does nature do that?'... That why still feels supernatural to me.

Also, The Haunting of Hill House (first published 1959) still reads SUPERBLY today. I have SO MANY thoughts on Eleanor and Theodora's relationship 🤓 🧐 particularly its giddy-school-girl overly affectionate beginning and its knife-sharp middle.

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🎃 HORRORTOBER CHALLENGE 🎃

1st of October: What's the first horror book you read?

I had to read The Turn of the Screw in university for my "Ideas of the Real" class (circa 2006 😅). I re-read it recently after watching The Haunting of Bly Manor and wow! It hits differently when you're older. Horror isn't the first genre I usually turn to when I want 'a good read' so the challenge this month will help me get through a few titles I've been meaning to read but have been putting off.

Stay tuned for a slow release of the horror titles I'll be reading in October!

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15 Sept 2022

Romanticizing my mornings with rose quartz and milky coffee

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🎃 Horrortober Challenge + Backlogathon 2022 📚

🔮 13th October: Do you believe in Friday 13th superstitions?

I don't believe in Friday 13th superstitions, no. But for some reason the broken mirror = bad luck superstition is really strong for me 🤷🏽‍♀️. Someone has put a broken mirror in our apartment building's hard rubbish collection, and it's been sitting to the side for a month, and it's SO UNNERVING >.< (And I wasn't even the person who broke the mirror!!!)

As part of @pastelhorroracademia and @logarithmicpanda's reading challenges, I've started a book of short stories by Barbara Baynton. This collection depicts the harsh life and ever-present fear (of personal safety, of physical health, of your child's safety) of living as a (white) female in rural Australia at the turn of the century. As Helen Garner writes in the Introduction, Baynton's stories "are driven by a contained, contemptuous rage that no woman of spirit can fail to recognise, or to share." It's not surprising that, in 1902, Baynton had to go out to London to get her stories published. White Australians, it seems, didn't want to see the mirror of their own society - even if it was only fiction.

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2021.07.28 || 31/100

Have you heard this joke?

If you talk to three scholars, you'll hear four opinions. 😂

That's what it's like in this subject - trying to find out if there was a Jewish canon in the first century, and what books were in it, and how much of the Jewish diaspora subscribed to that canon, and which groups had more books, and which had less books.... Etc!

P.s. spot the SHINee reference in the photo ^_^

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📚 October Backlog Readathon! 📚

Thank you to @logarithmicpanda for putting this marvellous idea out into the tumblr world for all to enjoy ^_^

I have on my list for October:

- The Mirror of Ink by Jorge Luis Borges (Pocket Penguins edition published 2005)

- Chess by Stefan Zweig (1942)

- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (1911)

- Martha and Hanwell by Zadie Smith (2005)

The books that will cross-over with the Horrortober Reading Challenge are:

- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959)

- Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton (1902)

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April 9, 2022

Let's do this! Let's do Anki!

(and then later let's do the baptism essay which is the reason I have 6 word docs of notes open)

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2021.07.10+11+12 ▶️ || 28/100 🗺️

I have studied mostly Japanese and Book of Acts in the last few days, but I don't have any pictures to post about it because... Well, I'm not taking aesthetic study pics when I would rather use the time to sleep. This tumblr is ultimately an accountability space for me, and I am SO HAPPY for anyone who stopped by to just internet-wave or like or whatever ^_^